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Lawrence S. Wittner: Despite COVID-19, other crises, major powers increased military spending in 2020

Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe econ...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Emotional eating – is it why diets have failed you?

Do you have a healthy relationship with food? Would you classify yourself as an emotional eater? Spoiler alert: We are all human, so we all eat for emotional reasons to some degr...

DATE: Apr 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Rural startups fuel the future

Durango native explains the coming boom

DATE: Apr 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letter: Address Native poverty, leave ’the Chief’ alone

Are we still wasting time and energy on the Toh-Atin Chief? Really? Perhaps those who are so supportive of its removal would like to interview Native Americans in Newcomb, New Mexico, on the...

DATE: Apr 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Relationship ends when wife returns

Dear Abby: I’ve been dating a married man for the last three years, and everything was great. We were attached at the hip and inseparable. I thought we had something special going. ...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Writers on the Range: Pumping up fear on the Colorado River

Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancé and found the family trembling and weeping. They pointed to the ceiling, where an axe w...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Kayla Shaggy: Take down the Toh-Atin ‘Chief’

My name is Kayla Shaggy, and I am a Diné and Annishinabe artist currently living in Arizona. I used to live in Durango. I’m known for my work in art and comics, specifically, “The Sixth Worl...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Paul Krugman: Getting real about coal and climate

“Change is coming, whether we seek it or not.” So declares a remarkable document titled “Preserving Coal Country,” released Monday by the United Mine Workers of America, in which the union —...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Writers on the Range: The Western state rush to suppress voting

Colorado’s elections are a bipartisan success story, so when Major League Baseball responded to Georgia’s new voting restrictions by moving the All-Star Game to Denver, it couldn’t have made...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Action Line speaks truth to power bill

Dear Action Line: I just received my first billing for electricity, as a new homeowner in the Durango area. La Plata Electric Association stated my “Average Daily Cost” was $1.88. This s...

DATE: Apr 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Gail Collins: A spring politics quiz good for a few laughs

Spring is here, folks! I know things aren’t really normal yet. But they seem to be coming around. Picnics! Movies! Sooner or later we’ll all actually be going to work at … work. And before y...

DATE: Apr 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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